Go on! Go on go on go on! The BOOMTOWN RATS SINGLES POLL

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Was tempted to just put in the first five. I'll leave that one up to u.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
If ever there was a poll where I'd pick "none of the above", well you started it Mr G!	8
1978 "Rat Trap"	4
1979 "I Don't Like Mondays"	4
1978 "She's So Modern"	3
1980 "Someone's Looking at You"	2
1982 "House on Fire"	1
1981 "The Elephant's Graveyard"	1
1979 "Diamond Smiles"	1
1977 "Looking After No. 1"	1
1978 "Like Clockwork"	0
1981 "Never in A Million Years"	0
1977 "Mary of the Fourth Form"	0
1980 "Banana Republic"	0
1984 "Tonight"	0
1984 "Drag Me Down"	0
1984 "Dave"	0
1985 "A Hold of Me"	0
1982 "Charmed Lives"	0

― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i quite like that song of indifference that bob did..

― electricsound, Friday, 12 October 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Never in A Million Years"... would I vote in a Boomtown Rats Singles Poll

― Tom D., Friday, 12 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Gotta be "Someone's Lookin' At You"

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 12 October 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

"joey's on the street again" wasn't a single?

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 12 October 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Y'know what? "House on Fire". Seriouxly.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 12 October 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Voted "Someone's Looking At You" just to decrease "I Don't Like Mondays"'s landslide win.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 15 October 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Landslide win on ILX? I think not.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 15 October 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Went with "Rat Trap." I actually like the first five singles more than "Mondays" (which is still good.)

Debut album has always been underrated, but A Tonic for Troops will always be my favorite.

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Well okay -- maybe I don't like "Like Clockwork" more than "Mondays," come to think of it. (And I can see how somebody might vote for "Someone's Looking At You," now that I see it mentioned. Thing is, outside of "Rat Trap" and "Mondays" -- the only songs of these I've ever heard on commerical radio -- and "Looking After No. 1" -- which I've got on a compilation of punk singles -- I've never really thought of these tracks as "singles" per se' at all. Which probably just proves I'm a stupid American.)

I do think of "It's All The Rage" (which is great) as a single, though (since it's on the B-side of "Mondays." I forget; was that on an album, too?)

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

"joey's on the street again" wasn't a single?

Also great. (Rats in Thin Lizzy doing Springsteen mode.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

I always thought "Rat Trap" faded just when it was geting started!

― Mark G, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

She's So Modern, barely over the other early ones. Though I did just replace the vinyl Tonic for the Troops and no Mary of the 4th Form or Joey's on the Street Again. Why can you make the CD reissue worse than the original? WTF?

― hugo, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 15 October 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

The people have spoken!

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

wow!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Rule number one when creating a poll: Never give the haters a chance to express their opinions. :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

Rule number minus one: You're assuming I didn't vote that way!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Feel bad Clockwork took the collar. Ai ai ai ai.

― hugo, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

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